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As a budding "black journalista," UCLA alumna Erin Aubry Kaplan couldn't believe her luck when the Los Angeles Times asked her to cover South Central Los Angeles after the 1992 riots.

Six documentaries produced by University of Manchester MA students are to be screened at a special Imperial War Museum North event next week (27 Sept).

A selection from what has been identified by a University of Manchester academic as the only surviving Chartist hymn book is to be performed in public for the first time since 1854.

Throughout history, milk has been a symbol of motherhood and fertility, but also prosperity, health and strength.

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The Swedish police force appears on our television screens, year in and year out. The socially critical police narratives in novels and films have a tremendous impact.

Stanford philosophy professor takes the side of a beleaguered theory - that predetermination and free will are not mutually exclusive.

The idea that humanity could turn tables on economic necessity—mastering rather than being enslaved by material circumstances—is so new that Consider the world of Georgian opulence that the author of Pride and Prejudice inhabited.

For centuries historians have believed that the spark that led to the popular Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297 was William Wallace's killing of the English Sheriff of Lanark, William Hesilrig.

Ten years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, a new book launched today at ANU gives key insight into Australia's part in the war and the impact of the decade-long conflict.

The region's linguistic heritage is set to be explored in a new research project comparing the way today's West Midlands residents speak to text from an ancient medieval manuscript originating from the area.

The history, traditions and ethos of the University of Glasgow form a major element of a landmark six part BBC Radio Scotland series to be broadcast each Wednesday afternoon at 1405, beginning on Wednesday 14 September 2011.

During the week, Jack Reading is a student in Optometry at The University of Manchester - but in his spare time, he is one of the best Downhill Mountain Bikers in the UK.

Félix Gutiérrez, a nationally acclaimed expert in social media and racial diversity and professor of journalism and communication at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, visits the University of Minnesota on Sept.

An excavation led by University of Manchester archaeologists and started this week, is to shed some light on the rich Victorian and Edwardian heritage of a much loved park.

A major excavation at Britain's biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain the meaning and purpose of the enigmatic site.

Never-ending war? A new "greatest generation?" A professor whose 3-year-old son is on the government's watchlist? Six Stanford experts talk about the world since that terrible day a decade ago.

Aug. AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is now receiving applications for its 2012-2013 research fellowships in the humanities. The application deadline is Feb. 1, 2012. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online.

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In the aftermath of 9/11, Mary Marshall Clark began noticing that a deep stillness had fallen over New York City.

U president Kaler, athletic director Maturi and Marching Band to headline State Fair parade An annual highlight for fairgoers takes place this Sunday, Aug.

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, from the Department of History, has been appointed a Trustee of the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI).

Who are the 'unmeltable' in the great melting pot of America? 9/11 ten years on.

Book commemorates 9/11 by questioning what it means to say 'I am an American? Shortly after the events of 9/11, a Public Service Announcement was broadcast on US television in which American citizens of different ages, races, religions and ethnicities each proudly proclaimed 'I am an American'.

The remains of a 2000-year-old Roman port have been discovered in south Wales by archaeologists from the University. Uncovered outside the Roman fortress in Caerleon by a team of staff and students from the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, the port is only the second known from Roman Britain and sheds new light on Wales? role in Roman Britain.

The University of Nottingham Life Cycle team are setting off on a gruelling 1,000-mile charity bike ride from John O'Groats to Land's End.

Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex. University of Manchester science historian Jay Kennedy, who hit the headlines last year after revealing he had cracked the code in the great thinker's writings, has now published a decoder's manual that lays bare the secret content of Plato's ancient works.

Conventional wisdom has long held that Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated racial self-help and the unity of the African diaspora, grew out of the heady political

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Darkness truly ruled the night in the Europe of 1500. People feared almost everything about the hours after sunset, says University of Illinois historian Craig Koslofsky.

Reorganisation of the brain and sense organs could be the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates, one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, according to a paper by an international team of researchers, published today in Nature.

For years, Iranian studies scholar Ehsan Yarshater was frustrated that there was only one comprehensive and reliable reference for his field.

A series of archaeological finds in Tasmania have shown how colonial guards secretly eased the brutal treatment of women prisoners in 1850s Australia, rewriting our understanding of life inside Britain's colonial prisons Down Under.

New research shows evidence of early oxygen on our planet. Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare ' if not completely absent ' player in the turbulent mix of primordial gases.

'Document' is aired on Monday, 20. BBC Radio 4.

A philosophy professor at the University of Warwick has urged for a re-evaluation of our notions of celebrity - calling for a return to when fame was a reward rather than simply a goal.

A University of Manchester historian has uncovered evidence which shows how a defensive alliance against England between Scotland and France might never have formally ended - potentially making it the longest in history.

Roger Hahn, emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader in shaping the academic field of the history of science, died unexpectedly on May 30 in New York City.

University archive in call for diaries full of summer holiday fun The University of Sussex Mass Observation Archive is pairing up with a national campaign to get people fit and healthy and help them make a little bit of history at the same time.

Excluding Religious Education from the Baccalaureate in England risks unravelling years of progress in developing a subject rich in reasoning and discursive skills, say experts.

An MIT researcher looks at a growing trend in a number of developing countries: national satellite programs.

Millions of documents at Stanford give us an unprecedented view of the inside workings of an authoritarian regime - and how the Baath Party became a bloated bureaucracy, fed by an unending atmosphere of war.

Given the UK's obsession with the weather, it would seem obvious that the basic understanding of how low pressure systems evolve has been known for a long time. Instead, some of the biggest storms in the UK's history, such as the Great Storm of October 1987, did not fit this basic understanding. With groundbreaking research, David Schultz, from The University of Manchester believes the way we learn about the weather is wrong and has been wrong for 90 years.